How can I read Excel files with symfony2? - symfony

Question

I installed Excelbundle with PhpExcel library. I want to read excel files I found this function.
How can I use it? Any suggestion?
public function xlsAction()
{
$filenames = "your-file-name";
$phpExcelObject = $this->get('phpexcel')->createPHPExcelObject($filenames);
foreach ($phpExcelObject ->getWorksheetIterator() as $worksheet) {
echo 'Worksheet - ' , $worksheet->getTitle();
foreach ($worksheet->getRowIterator() as $row) {
echo ' Row number - ' , $row->getRowIndex();
$cellIterator = $row->getCellIterator();
$cellIterator->setIterateOnlyExistingCells(false); // Loop all cells, even if it is not set
foreach ($cellIterator as $cell) {
if (!is_null($cell)) {
echo ' Cell - ' , $cell->getCoordinate() , ' - ' , $cell->getCalculatedValue();
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

My suggestion is "Read the documentation" and start hacking at it. Working with excel is, in my experience, quite complex and time consuming so don't expect other people to solve your problem online.
It seems like you're talking about this bundle:
https://github.com/liuggio/ExcelBundle
It has great documentation, even full examples (see "Fake Controller").

Answer 2

With PHPExcel it is quite easy to read a Excel document.
See my example :
$dir = $this->getContainer()->getParameter("kernel.root_dir") . "/../../data/import/";
$file_name = "my_excel_file.xlsx";
$excel = $this->getContainer()->get('phpexcel')->createPHPExcelObject($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $file_name);
$sheet = $excel->getActiveSheet();
$row = 0;
while ($sheet->getCellByColumnAndRow(1, $row)->getValue()) {
$data = $sheet->getCellByColumnAndRow(2, $row)->getValue(); // get value from nth line and 2nf column
//do stuff -- see doc for functions on $sheet
}